{"id":12679,"date":"2017-07-06T09:56:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T13:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?page_id=12679"},"modified":"2021-11-16T05:57:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T09:57:52","slug":"12679-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/12679-2\/","title":{"rendered":"S3P1 &#8211; My Stepfather&#8217;s Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>My Stepfather&#8217;s Cars<\/h2>\n<p>When my stepfather returned<br \/>\nfrom the machine shop, all<br \/>\nhe wanted to do was get under<br \/>\nthe hood or chassis of a junked car<br \/>\nin his backyard, trying, against<br \/>\nthe odds to fix it with parts<br \/>\ntaken from other cars and failing<br \/>\nover and over. What did it all<br \/>\ncome to? Where was the world,<br \/>\nand where was poetry? 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